unproductiveness
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Others suggest that after five years of infirmity, unproductiveness and cramped quarters the thought of having a new play produced might amount to a rebirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Especially in civic life the unproductiveness of the situation is very apparent.
From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G.E. Partridge
The very unproductiveness of Gray's mind in other directions probably helped this one product.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
Of late, too, the unproductiveness of our taxes, and the uneasiness of the public creditors in the United States, has not escaped his observation.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Jared Sparks
Its end was as strange as its constitution; but here it comes under our notice as a singular exemplification of the unproductiveness, as I may call it, of the Turkish intellect.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
